612040 UE Positions in Cultural Studies and Cultural Practices: "Ça-a-été": Photo Journalism as Documentary Art

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612040
UE Positions in Cultural Studies and Cultural Practices: "Ça-a-été": Photo Journalism as Documentary Art
UE 2
5
Block
annually
German

The students are familiar with the intermedial interplay of photo and text that characterises the photo reportage. They can recognise and analytically justify evaluations and critically assess the extremely widespread genre of photo reportage, which appears in a wide variety of media (magazines, journals, digital formats).

„Ça-a-été“ is the phrase with which Roland Barthes point to one of central and fundamental characteristics of photographs published in documentary contexts, namely that what is seen on the photograph (in one way or another) has been the case (more or less like that). All forms of (tempted falsification) have changed nothing with respect to this basis of photographs as documentary art. Far less discussed than questions of retouching, image editing or deepfakes, however, are quite different forms of manipulations (in the sense of an unnoticed evaluation and attribution) that are commonplace for photographs, namely the textual additions to photographs: Indispensable for the photograph as a document, they simultaneously direct our gaze and thus casually influence how we view the respective photograph. Using photo reportages (current ones on the Russian war of aggression on Ukraine, but also those from the first flowering of the genre in the 1920s and 1930s), the seminar is dedicated to analysing the intermedial interplay of photo and text.

Input by course instructor, own reading of selected texts on photo theory, reading of photo reports, short presentations by students, joint exhibition visit (planned).

Attendance and active participation in the courses, short presentations, written analysis of a photo reportage.

David Elliott (Hg.): Russische Photographie (1840-1940); Berlin 1993; Bodo von Dewitz/Robert Lebeck: Kiosk. Eine Geschichte der Fotoreportage 1839-1973, Göttingen 2001; Anton Holzer: Rasende Reporter: eine Kulturgeschichte des Fotojournalismus. Fotografie, Presse und Gesellschaft in Österreich 1890-1945, Darmstadt 2014.

06.10.2023
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15.30 - 17.00 40406 40406 Barrier-free
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Mon 2023-11-20
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